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'He's a man of marvellous power, observed Ardalion, carrying off the samovar; 'he is held in high esteem among the merchant gentry. As I went to bed, and reflected on the incident that had occurred to me, I fancied at last that I had reached some explanation of it.
When I got home I obeyed Mastridia and ordered some tea; I felt tired even weak. 'Well? Ardalion questioned me, 'have you been? did you see something? 'He did, certainly, show me something ... which, I'll own, I had not anticipated, I replied.
She's a respectable old woman; she sells pickled apples on the bridge. If you wish it, I will ask her. 'Please do. Ardalion coughed behind his hand. 'And a gratuity, whatever you think fit, nothing much, of course, should also be handed to her the old lady.
'To be sure, to be sure, she said at last; 'Ardalion Matveitch did say something, certainly; my son Vassinka's art you were wanting.... But we can't be sure, my dear sir.... 'Oh, why so? I interposed. 'As far as I'm concerned, you may feel perfectly easy.... I'm not an informer. 'Oh, mercy on us, the old woman caught me up hurriedly, 'what do you mean?
Lebedeff did his best to keep Ardalion Alexandrovitch by him, and to prevent him from invading the prince's quarters. He chatted with him confidentially, so that they might have been taken for old friends.
She wore a dressing-jacket, her feet were in slippers, her face painted, and her hair was in dozens of small plaits. No sooner did she catch sight of Ardalion Alexandrovitch than she screamed: "There he is, that wicked, mean wretch! I knew it was he! My heart misgave me!" The old man tried to put a good face on the affair. "Come, let us go in it's all right," he whispered in the prince's ear.
'Is the pilgrim still here? I asked. 'I fancy he's not gone yet. He's been ever so long at the gate, and making such a wonderful wise to-do, that there's no getting by. He's amusing himself with this tomfoolery; he finds it pay, no doubt. My man belonged to the same class of educated servants as Ardalion. 'And is the lady with him? 'Yes. She's in attendance on him.
This unkind action much surprised poor Ardalion Alexandrovitch, the victim, as he called himself, of an "unbounded trust in the nobility of the human heart." When he signed those notes of hand he never dreamt that they would be a source of future trouble. The event showed that he was mistaken. "Trust in anyone after this!
Prince Ardalion Tchikurasov, who had been appointed her guardian, placed her in the best Moscow boarding-school, and when she left school, took her into his own home. He kept open house, and gave balls in the winter.
In one of the side rooms there sat at a table looking like one of the regular guests of the establishment Ardalion Alexandrovitch, with a bottle before him, and a newspaper on his knee. He was waiting for the prince, and no sooner did the latter appear than he began a long harangue about something or other; but so far gone was he that the prince could hardly understand a word.
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